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5 Things to Leave Off Your Resume

5 Things to Leave Off Your Resume

Despite LinkedIn, Facebook and other new job hunting forums, at some point in the application process you’ll be asked for a resume or CV (Curriculum Vitae: a summary of your academic and professional history). A good resume can still help you get that all-important interview for an open position. There are many excellent Internet articles [...]

4 Essential Job Search 2.0 Tips for New Grads

4 Essential Job Search 2.0 Tips for New Grads

Entering the job market after college can be an incredibly stressful process, but it’s also equally exciting.  As a new grad, you likely don’t have a ton of practical experience to list on your resume and will be struggling with the best way to sell yourself as a viable candidate to potential employers. Here are [...]

A New Year, A New You

A New Year, A New You

The New Year represents a fresh start and a new opportunity to reinvent yourself for an exciting future.. Even though the job market may be favorable for you in the coming year, it’s still important to focus on enhancing your professional appeal so you can take full advantage of new opportunities. If you’re looking for [...]

Job Seekers, Resolutions for the New Year!

Job Seekers, Resolutions for the New Year!

It’s that dreaded time of year again, that time when we feel compelled to make clichéd resolutions that we hope will bring health, success and happiness (if we can just manage to keep them). Many of us will pledge to lose excess weight, eat more healthfully or begin a new exercise regimen, like hot yoga. [...]

Professional Resume Writer, Should You Use One?

Professional Resume Writer, Should You Use One?

Although the economy is showing signs of recovering, many people are still out of work or are about to be. And as the labor market improves, large numbers of workers are again considering making a job change. So, in this highly competitive market with lots of people vying for the same opportunities, how do you [...]

ResumeBear Helps Job Seekers With 3 New Partnerships

ResumeBear Helps Job Seekers With 3 New Partnerships

ResumeBear announced 3 new partnerships today in their continued march toward being the premier job board in the United States. Solana Beach, Ca (PRWEB) November 29, 2011 ResumeBear announced 3 new partnerships today in their continued march toward being the premier job board in the United States. ResumeBear and HirePatriots.com: HirePatriots.com, a non profit, free [...]

Keywords in Your Resume Lead to Interviews

Keywords in Your Resume Lead to Interviews

Eighty percent of all submitted resumes (and 100 percent of resumes sent to Fortune 1000 companies) get scanned by software commonly known as an applicant-tracking system (ATS), and such scanned resumes are stored on a server in a digitized format. Humans are seeing your resume only if it resurfaces based on a query. That’s why [...]

How Do You Explain Away Gaps in Your Resume?

How Do You Explain Away Gaps in Your Resume?

You really want a posted job, in fact, you really need that job. The problem is, however, you’re worried about how you will explain a gap or gaps on your resume. That problem is a reality for countless people who are looking to remove themselves from the unemployment list, which currently hovers around 9.1 percent [...]

Endorsement for ResumeBear: WHY WE LOVE RESUMEBEAR AND YOU WILL TOO

Endorsement for ResumeBear: WHY WE LOVE RESUMEBEAR AND YOU WILL TOO

We don’t do much in the way of endorsements here at Jobtrakr.  However if there’s something that we discover that could benefit our readers, we have a fiduciary responsibility to share it with you.  Enter ResumeBear.  The internet isn’t short on resume services.  Whether they promise to distribute your resume to all of the job boards [...]

10 phrases You Should Ban From Your Resume

10 phrases You Should Ban From Your Resume

1. “I’m a Team-Player.” This is one of the most over-used cliches, so try to find a way you can show that you are this team player. Did you collaborate with someone or with a department to meet an objective? Put that on your resume instead of a vague, cliched expression. Be detailed about your [...]